Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) officials announced Wednesday that COVID-19 variants continue to be found while L.A. County’s’ case rate remains low and stable. LADPH officials announced Monday that the risk of death by COVID-19 for those fully vaccinated is 1 in a million, comparative to 1-500 without the vaccine. The most commonly circulated variants found in ...

Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) officials announced Wednesday that additional cases of a potentially “more severe” COVID-19 variant have been detected. Amidst the decline of COVID-19 cases among pregnant women as well as residents and staff at skilled nursing facilities, 34% of specimens analyzed at the Public Health Laboratory this past week contained a COVID-19 variant with ...